Comments on: I Ordered an iPhone, or Why Hell Froze Over Today

By: Jeremey

Jeremey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:41:06 +0000

I’ve been “bi-phonal” for about a year and a half, carrying an E71 in one pocket and an original iPhone in the other. The voice on the iPhone sucked, and the E71′s shone. In most other respects, the iPhone was the winner, but there were days when it would annoy.

Well, no more. I upgraded to the 3GS and the E71 sits on my desk. The extra speed, storage, and big improvement in camera have sold me, and the voice quality is dramatically better (maybe I had a crappy original? I dunno). And of course the apps blow Symbian’s offerings away.

(I work for Nokia)

By: Jerald

Jerald — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:11:14 +0000

Hey Dameon,
I’ve been loving my iPhone 3G since I acquired it last November. This is the first handset that I truly enjoy, even more than any of the Nokia handsets that I had when I was working there. The first thing I did was jailbreak it so I could use it for “tethering”. It will be interesting how AT&T will enable this. With my Samsung Blackjack, it cost extra to enable tethering. Now, I join the iPhone to my laptop’s ad-hoc wireless network and set the laptop’s network connections to use the iPhone as the HTTP(s) and SOCKS proxy. It’s good enough to get email while driving cross-country.

See http://www.iphonemodem.com/ for the way that I have been doing it.
See http://tinyurl.com/mgyxhe for a simple way to do this either through Bluetooth or through the USB cable connection

Talk to you soon!
Jerald

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:53:36 +0000

The Nokia E71 is my current workhorse phone, and I’ve used it as my primary handset for most of the last 7 months. It will be interesting to see if I can say that about the iPhone 3GS in 6 months.

By: David Beckemeyer

David Beckemeyer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:41 +0000

I got an iPhone originally got development not expecting to actually use it (or like it) for myself – for many of the same reasons you listed in the past.

I was very surprised. I still don’t like the many ways it is closed, but I accept it now because of all it is and does, how it raises the bar. And it does raise the bar, not because it looks cool, has a touch screen etc. Not for any of the reasons most people (and apples competitors) think.

I’ll be curious to hear if on a few months your opinion of your experience and whether your stated reasons Here for wanting in stand the yet of time and whether in fact some unexpected likes and dislikes emerge.

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:20 +0000

Nothing wrong with only owning a touch, Sheryl. Marc, the lack of removable storage was kind of an issue for me at first, but it’s 32gb. It’s more than I use today.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:13:26 +0000

Despite being quite the techie, my iPhone 3GS 32gb is my first iPod/iPhone/smartphone (my first MP3 player was a Sansa FUZE 4gb, that I bought less than a year ago.) Call me nit-picky, but each time Apple would release a newer version of either, I would find a significant reason to wait. Last time around tethering was not officially supported. Before that, it was no 3G. With both the Nano iPods and previous iPhones it was the lack of removable storage, too – I think 32gb should hold me over just fine. Until now, the last Apple product I had owned was a Quadra 630 back in 1994.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:32:11 +0000

Hell has frozen over! But, I understand why it took until now and the attention you spent inspectigating. Good for you. I hope you enjoy it. I still live on my Bold, but have a touch so iphone centrics can tell me I’m lame. See Dave and Dameon, you’re not the last hold outs.

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By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:01:09 +0000

I doubt we are the last holdouts in this area.

By: Dave Michels

Dave Michels — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:43:09 +0000

I am shocked, sad, and disappointed. I think we were the last 2 holdouts. I am waiting for nexgen Android.

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:25:24 +0000

No guilt of not eating the dogfood, that’s true.

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:35 +0000

Even my wife has said she wants to play with my iPhone when I get it. She’d have one if it didn’t cost $80/mo for the required service plan.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:29:26 +0000

I read the article comparing the iPhone to the Nokia 5800. One thing that really struck me was:

>>This might be the most important point: Even when the Nokia has a lot of features, my girlfriend still
>>reaches out for my iPhone if she wants to look something up on the web.

I think this is the general factor that leads to the iPhone as generating a lot more Internet traffic than anything else. It’s actually possible to use the Internet on it.

By: tate

tate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:15:11 +0000

Ha Ha my sentiments exactly… I still love Nokia, not so much S60. But picked one up myself. No regrets so far.

By: luca

luca — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:53:04 +0000

Let me add another reason: you don’t work for Nokia anymore so you don’t feel guilty